As NASA’s Kepler Mission continues to supply important data and continuously monitors stars for transit…
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Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth’s atmosphere, including stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, and the vast cosmos itself. It explores the origins, evolution, and fate of the universe through observation, theory, and cutting-edge technology such as telescopes, space probes, and satellite missions. From mapping distant galaxies to detecting exoplanets and probing cosmic microwave background radiation, astronomy connects physics, mathematics, and chemistry to unravel the mysteries of space and time—revealing our place in the universe and inspiring ongoing discoveries across astrophysics and cosmology.
Two new papers published in the Astrophysical Journal describe the process of hydrocarbon creation on…
Searching for dark matter and studying conventional models for the origin and evolution of the…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that the Sombrero galaxy, also known as NGC 4594, is…
Once scientists realized that their understanding of the distribution of galaxies was incorrect, researchers began…
A new study is going against widely believed theories about dark matter. While using telescopes…
A rare cosmic zoom lens, which uses the gravity of a large mass to magnify…
The world’s largest telescope will be the Square Kilometer Array, and when it starts peering…
While using infrared spectra from the Spitzer Space Telescope to analyze the dust in several…
The power of the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze. Pictured above is the…
This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus…
While studying SN 2011fe and using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, researchers…
Quasars, which are powered by supermassive black holes, are among the brightest objects in the…
To better understand how galaxies continue to turn one solar mass’s worth of matter per…
By the standards of space-based astronomy, NASA’s new NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope that…
Scientists aren’t sure how quasars form, how they develop in time, or how (or what)…
While looking over data from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and…
Missed by previous surveys, astronomers using FourStar found 30 red galaxies, which form the earliest…